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01 Apr 2015 8:37:20am

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Abbott says Australia is "open for business", but he really means 'open for exploitation' , the reef and environment be damned..This govt now seems to in policy on the run panic mode, the rapid-fire approval of this environmentally sensitive project , which will involve pile driving and dredging / dumping near the reef, and the future prospect of siltation and coral bleaching from elevated CO2 emissions.I've read the green-wash "approval" for the Abbot Point terminal and was appalled to read that dredging and pile driving operations will only halt for nature during the coral spawning, but will continue through all whale migrations and turtle hatching periods.Oh they will have someone on lookout and are required to shut down operations within two minutes if they spot any wildlife in the (yet to be determined) "exclusion zone"...I doubt they'll be very busy..